A study of 2,000 UK office workers has found that companies are at risk of data security breaches due to employees relying on devices and consumer cloud services to store business documents.

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However, he conceded there were still issues when it came to regulations, which could discourage some European companies from embracing BYOD.

“On the worker side, it is related to the fact that if you tell your employees to bring their own device, one might have a few pounds more and buy a nicer machine than another could afford," said Sartorius. "That worker might then say, 'She can do a better job than me because she has the better machine'.

“On a regulatory basis, it is also who pays the taxes," he added. "It gets to this extreme because if the company says, 'I am going to give you £500 or £1,000 to buy your own device', then that is an additional income, so how do you treat it from a tax perspective?”

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